The Democratic Republic of Discs is a very large, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 414 million Discsians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Discelsia. The average income tax rate is 68.4%.

The powerhouse Discsian economy, worth 31.9 trillion Rainbow Rocks a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 77,027 Rainbow Rocks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Government employees cannot vote for the policies they have to implement, teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank, medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, and city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Discs's national animal is the White Peacock, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Discs is ranked 238,768^th in the world and 15^th in Ridgefield for Most Primitive, scoring -109.31 on the Scary Big Number Scale.